This morning we reviewed Morgan’s Bible verse, spelling, and vocabulary words. We went over the spelling sentence Morgan wrote yesterday for grammar and spelling. Later in the morning, Morgan completed her spelling and vocabulary test and scored a 100%! She also got the bonus word, “meddle”. In literature today, we began reading from Arnold Lobel’s Fables collection. We discussed the two main elements of fables throughout our reading (has a moral and uses personification of animal characters). We first read, The Bad Kangaroo. Morgan recalled the story and answered in writing to answer why the principal ran out of the kangaroo house! She did a nice job with her recall and we worked through spelling and grammar errors. For her fables book project, Morgan did a nice job writing what she inferred the moral of the story to be. She indicated that the boy thought it was ok to do the (bad) things he was doing because his parents were doing them, too! We discussed how a child’s conflict will reflect the ways of his parents. Next, we read The Baboon’s Umbrella and followed the same procedures as above. Morgan inferred that people should be careful of people’s instructions as it could be wrong. This was generally along the lines of the moral to be careful of a friend’s advice: sometimes it is good and sometimes it is bad. To practice grammar skills, Morgan did a “daily fix it” activity. She worked on correcting sentences for punctuation and spelling. She is also practicing phonics, the sight word "always", and synonyms. She completed a dictionary challenge for the word discovery. For Latin today, we practiced the five adverb vocabulary words flashcards for Lesson 15. Finally, this activity had a journal prompt to write four sentences to describe herself and a question for me. We reviewed for spelling, word choice, and grammar. To end the day, Morgan participated in a third-party online Lindamood Bell session. She was asked to picture a number line 0-50 and find designated points along it. She also counted back by 2s and back by 5s. She practiced flashcards for mixed addition and subtraction facts of single digits. She was instructed to “get a picture” of items in which she struggled or missed. With a “picture”, she air writes the equation. She also worked through an addition story problem and earned a Magical Learning Moment for her hard work. She practiced a reading list evaluating the chunks in the word. These were sensical and nonsensical words such as stature, brived, tromp, and mengent. She practiced words from her sight word box. Finally, she read some of her book, Anne of Green Gables working on reading technique and fluency.